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Green prescribing

Created on
23 Apr 2019
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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, we’ve been working with the University of Sheffield on the IWUN project, Valuing Urban Nature. Our role has been to translate the research outputs into something…
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Should the NHS declare a Climate Emergency?

Created on
21 Mar 2019
by
Angela Wilson
Dear All, It is NHS Sustainability day today. I would be grateful if you could comment on the following letter that has been sent to the Department of Health today asking for the NHS to declare…
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MDIs to DPIs

Created on
27 Nov 2018
by
Christelle Blunden
Does anyone have an example of an audit or guideline review they have completed on the above which they are willing to share which I could use for inspiration to work with my practice and CCG on the…
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New Colgate TerraCycle Oral Care Product Recycling Programme

Created on
21 Nov 2018
by
Sara Harford
Fantastic news in support of environmentally sustainable dental care! Worldwide consumer oral hygiene product company Colgate have partnered up with TerraCycle to launch a new free programme in the UK…
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"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

Created on
15 Nov 2018
by
James Szymankiewicz
"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing. We look for the causes of disease and aim to change behaviour to improve outcomes. We have a…
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Scottish CDO raises issue of plastic waste

Created on
30 Oct 2018
by
Mark Platt
Wonder if anyone caught this in the Scottish Daily Mail (23/10): 4.7m cups thrown away by dentists every year DENTISTS in Scotland are throwing away a shocking 4.7million plastic cups a…
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What is the carbon footprint of patients' travel to GP?

Created on
14 Oct 2018
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Harry Longman
I run askmyGP, which aims to make it easier for patients to get help from their own GP, and easier for GPs to give the right help. A key element of this is the finding that only about one in three…
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Calling all Q members (Health Foundation) with a passion for sustainability

Created on
12 Sep 2018
by
Chantelle Rizan
Calling all sustainability friends… are you a Q member (Health Foundation)? We are pleased to announce we have just started a new Sustainability Specialist Interest group- please do join us…
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Dental Sustainability Scholars 2017-18, a year on...

Created on
9 Sep 2018
by
Sara Harford
A fantastic year on since starting as ‘Sustainable Dentistry Scholars’, the time has come for Darshini and I to hang up our scholar hats! This past year we have been supported by CSH and Health…
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Dental Sustainability Video

Created on
18 Jul 2018
by
Darshini Ramasubbu
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TjSIci4JyNw&feature=youtu.be Creating a video showing how sustainability can be incorporated into dental practice was one of the projects Sara and I worked on this…